I am still quite new to CGSociety, so I was just exploring and I ran into this thread, so I decided I would love to share my recent custom brushes with everyone.

The Brush was created by 2 flowers and the leaves of 1 flower (Gloxinia flower, Forget Me Not flower, and the Heliotrope flower leaves). The Brush Set is the same captured dab with 2 variants, a Chalk and an Oil.

Instructions:Simply copy the folder with the Brush Category and JPEG (KYK Textures) to your Painter brush library. Or if you simply just wish to add the individual brushes (Perfect Brush Chalk & Perfect Brush Oil) to an existing library, feel free to do so. I will continue to update my library and share with everyone, I hope you will enjoy the Brush Set. Feel free to share your thoughts.ENJOY!

8. Launch Painter X, load the appropriate brush library, and in the Brush Selector, choose the appropriate brush category. In the brush variant list you should now see the two new custom brush variants, Perfect Brush Chalk and Perfect Brush Oil.

Thanks again for your generosity, Kamal. I'm sure a lot of people will enjoy using these brush variants.

I have to say Rob's brushes are cool. I just downloaded and tried them out.

I can blend so much faster in Painter than I can in Photoshop. I might just make the transition and do most of the painting in Painter from now on. I like my custome pencil brush is photoshop much better though. It almost works as well as a real pencil.

There are certain things that I know I can only do in photoshop. Dang it, now I will have to switch between both programs. And nothing works better for inking than illustrator.

Originally Posted by architectus:I have to say Rob's brushes are cool. I just downloaded and tried them out.

I can blend so much faster in Painter than I can in Photoshop. I might just make the transition and do most of the painting in Painter from now on. I like my custome pencil brush is photoshop much better though. It almost works as well as a real pencil.

There are certain things that I know I can only do in photoshop. Dang it, now I will have to switch between both programs. And nothing works better for inking than illustrator.

Glad you like 'em.

Got a link to your custom Photoshop pencil brush?

When I ink, I choose Painter over Photoshop (no contest), but I've never use Illustrator so how does that compare to Painter for inking--especially clean and expressive line quality?

For some reason the brushes I save as a file named mybrushes.arb doesn't show up in my brushes folder, but that is where I saved it. When I open photoshop the file is there for me to load, but the file is not in my brushes folder when I check the folder so I could zip it and put it online.

Originally Posted by Lunatique:I just realized we really should have a sticky thread where people posted links to various custom Painter brushes availble for download on the internet. So, if you have some, or know URL's for some, post them here. Try to only post brushes you have actually used and think are really good--not just any link you come across.

I'll kick off the thread with the latest version of my custom brushes (updated just today).

I wasn't happy with any of the pencil brushes that came with Painter, so I tried to design a brush that could come as close to a real pencil as possible. Although this is pretty good, I'm still trying to get that "shade with flat side of pencil" feature into it, so that tilting the tablet pen will be like tilting a real pencil.

The Round Series of brushes (Painting Round and Blender Round series) are my workhorse brushes, as I do majority of my work with them. The Painting Round series gives me a lush bristled look, with great control in bleed and opacity, which allows very refined brushwork. The Blender Round series are basically the Painting Round series with the resaturation turned off, so I could have a set of various sized blending brushes easily accesible (I hate tweaking brushes on the fly, as I sometimes get distracted and end up playing with the brush controls instead of painting).

I wanted a basic set of brushes that handled to my liking for simple blocking in of early stages, so I designed these three.

Rob's Basic Flat - Just flat color with no bleed or opacity sensitivity. You can control the size with pressure, that's it. Great for laying down flat areas of color, and having size sensitivity means you don't have to change brush sizes as often.

Rob's Basic - No size and opacity sensitivity, but have bleed and control sensitivity. Great for laying down rough values and color variations with blending in your brushstrokes.

Rob's Basic (No Bleed) - bleed and resaturation turned off, but Pressure sensitivity turned on. This essentially gives you a brush that's similar to Photoshop's brushes. The lack of blending gives you very pure colors to work with.

This is a captured bristle brush, and it's like the Round Series, except that I've made it to be even more lush/creamy in feel. As you can see, at smaller sizes, the limitation of a captured bristle shows. This brush is at best when set to at least size 10 or more. I have it on 15 as the default.

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